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noun
- (mining) One who works at a tipple.
- Alternative form of tipple, a revolving frame or cage in which a truck or wagon is inverted to discharge its load.
- A habitual drinker; a bibber.
- A breed of domestic pigeon bred to participate in endurance competitions.
- (UK, railroad) An open wagon with a tipping trough, unloaded by being inverted (used for bulk cargo, especially minerals). A minecart, a lorry.
- someone who drinks liquor repeatedly in small quantities
noun
- (mining) A person who waits at the mouth of the shaft to receive the kibble of ore.
- A spacecraft, particularly a probe, designed to set down on the surface of another celestial body.
- (in combination) A person from a specific land. See highlander, Greenlander.
- One who lands, or who lands something.
- (Internet) Synonym of landing page.
- (slang) An illegal immigrant.
- a space vehicle that is designed to land on the moon or another planet
noun
- (mining, historical) A person employed in driving in rock other than coal.
- (fishing) One who takes part in drift fishing.
- (parachuting) A parachutist who jumps before the rest of the group to determine wind direction.
- (sometimes derogatory) A person who moves from place to place or job to job.
- (fishing) A boat used for drift fishing.
- (nautical) A type of lightweight sail used in light winds like a spinnaker.
- (automotive) A driver who uses driving techniques to modify vehicle traction to cause a vehicle to slide or power slide rather than drive in line with the tires.
- a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support
noun
- (coal mining) One who is employed in conveying the coal through the gangways.
- (nautical) A length of chain, one end of which is fastened to an anchor when let go, when the other end is fastened to a hawser.
- A horse that goes quickly.
- (business, rail transport) One who oversees a gang of workmen.
- (chiefly Scotland) One who or that which walks or goes; a goer; a walker.
- the foreman of a work gang
noun
- (mining) A person employed to tear away ore, rock, etc. to make a passage for material to be carried to the surface.
- (mining) A hook-like tool used to tear away ore, rock, etc.
- (US, New Jersey, slang) A hot dog deep-fried in oil until the casing bursts.
- (computing) Software that extracts content from files or storage media.
- A murderer who kills and often mutilates victims with a blade or similar sharp weapon.
- A foghorn.
- A legislative bill or act that transfers powers of appointment from the usual holders to a chief executive or a board of officials.
- Someone who rips something.
- Something that rips something else.
- (British, Australia, slang) Something that is an excellent example of its kind.
- (agriculture) A tool or plant used to reduce soil compaction.
- a murderer who slashes the victims with a knife
adj
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- (intransitive) To work a mine near the surface.
- (intransitive) To rise to the surface.
- (transitive) To make (information, facts, content, etc) known.
- (transitive) To bring to the surface.
- (transitive) To provide with a surface; to apply a surface to.
- (intransitive, figurative) To come out of hiding.
- (intransitive, of information, facts, content, etc) To become known or apparent; to appear or be found; to come to light.
- come to the surface
- appear or become visible; make a showing
- put a coat on; cover the surface of; furnish with a surface
noun
- (figurative) Outward or external appearance.
- The overside or upside of a flat object such as a table, or of a liquid.
- The outside hull of a tangible object.
- (crosswording) The story or image suggested by a cryptic clue, when read as a whole sentence without considering wordplay.
- (computer graphics) A portion of the display to which graphics can be rendered.
- (mathematics, geometry) The locus of an equation (especially one with exactly two degrees of freedom) in a space of more than two dimensions.
- a superficial aspect as opposed to the real nature of something
- a device that provides reactive force when in motion relative to the surrounding air; can lift or control a plane in flight
- the outermost level of the land or sea
- information that has become public
- the outer boundary of an artifact or a material layer constituting or resembling such a boundary
- the extended two-dimensional outer boundary of a three-dimensional object
adj
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- (mining, historical) A person employed to install and remove props, brattices, etc. and to clear gas, for the safety of the miners.
- (historical) A member of the French Chamber of Deputies, formerly called Corps Législatif.
- (Ireland, often capitalized) A member of Dáil Éireann, or the title of a member of Dáil Éireann.
- (US, law enforcement) a law enforcement officer who works for the county sheriff's office; a deputy sheriff or sheriff's deputy; the entry level rank in such an agency.
- A member of the French National Assembly.
- One appointed as the substitute of others, and empowered to act for them, in their name or their behalf; a substitute in office.
- (government) The name for a member of legislature in some countries.
- someone authorized to exercise the powers of sheriff in emergencies
- a member of the lower chamber of a legislative assembly (such as in France)
- a person appointed to represent or act on behalf of others
- an assistant with power to act when their superior is absent
verb
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- (mining, historical) A person who gets the mineral down by blasting in the working face after it has been "holed".
- (mining, historical) A person employed to cut or blast the roof or floor of a roadway and so give more height.
- (Internet) An online seller who uses the fraudulent technique of brushing.
- Someone who brushes (any of the meanings).
noun
- (mining) An area for working in a coal mine.
- (in the plural) A set of rooms inhabited by someone; one's lodgings.
- (nautical) A space between the timbers of a ship's frame.
- A place or position in society; office; rank; post, sometimes when vacated by its former occupant.
- A quantity of furniture sufficient to furnish one room.
- (Internet, countable) An IRC or chat room.
- (usually in the singular, metonymic) The people in a room.
- (countable) A separate part of a building, enclosed by walls, a floor and a ceiling.
- (countable, with possessive pronoun) (One's) bedroom.
- Alternative form of roum (“deep blue dye”).
- (uncountable, figuratively) Sufficient space for or to do something.
- (caving) A portion of a cave that is wider than a passage.
- (uncountable) Space for something, or to carry out an activity.
- the people who are present in a room
- an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling
- space for movement
- opportunity for
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- (mining, slang) A mine worked by fewer than fifteen miners, which is small enough that some safety laws do not apply.
- (idiomatic, derogatory) A place regarded as fit only for dogs: a horrid, mean habitation.
- A hole that was dug by a dog.
- A type of small schooner designed in the 19th century to navigate in shallow waters and to conduct coastal shipping in and out of doghole ports.
- A small, shallow bay or inlet, usually surrounded by high cliffs, that is accessible only by smaller boats.
- An underground bolthole dug to hide from enemy soldiers.
- Such a small mine that is dug independently by one or a few miners, often clandestinely and illegally: a bootleg mine.
- A hole drilled for the placement of a bench dog.
- (mining) An excavated area that acts as an access hole or that connects different parts of a mine.
- A tiny, uncomfortable hole or cell, usually too small to stand in, in which prisoners are confined as punishment.
- One of the entrances to a system of prairie dog tunnels.
noun
- (mining) In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.
- Previously unknown facts or rumors about a person.
- (chiefly US) Soil or earth.
- (figurative) Meanness; sordidness.
- A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance.
- Freckles.
- obscene terms for feces
- the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock
- anything regarded as making something unclean
- disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people
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adj
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- (mining) Any thick mass of rock that prevents miners from following the lode or vein.
- (architecture, interior decorating, carpentry) Either of the vertical components that form the side of an opening in a wall, such as that of a door frame, window frame, or fireplace.
- Synonym of jambeau (“piece of armor for the leg”).
- upright consisting of a vertical side member of a door or window frame
verb
noun
- (mining) A heap of dressed ore.
- (masonry) One of the faces of a hewn stone.
- (law) The whole jury.
- A soft pad beneath a saddletree to prevent chafing.
- (medicine) A group of tests or assays, a battery.
- A portion of text or other material within a book, newspaper, web page, etc. set apart from the main body or separated by a border.
- A portion of a framed structure between adjacent posts or struts, as in a bridge truss.
- (law) A document containing the names of persons summoned as jurors by the sheriff.
- A (usually) rectangular section of a surface, or of a covering or of a wall, fence etc.
- (dressmaking) A plain strip or band, as of velvet or plush, placed at intervals lengthwise on the skirt of a dress, for ornament.
- (architecture) A sunken compartment with raised margins, moulded or otherwise, as in ceilings, wainscotings, etc.
- (graphical user interface) A type of GUI widget, such as a control panel.
- (Scots law) A prisoner arraigned for trial at the bar of a criminal court.
- (masonry) A slab or plank of wood used instead of a canvas for painting on.
- (joinery) A board having its edges inserted in the groove of a surrounding frame.
- (mining) One of the districts divided by pillars of extra size, into which a mine is laid off in one system of extracting coal.
- (British, historical) A list of doctors who could provide limited free healthcare prior to the introduction of the NHS.
- A group of people gathered to judge, interview, discuss etc. as on a television or radio broadcast for example.
- (comics) An individual frame or drawing in a comic.
- sheet that forms a distinct (usually flat and rectangular) section or component of something
- (computer science) a small temporary window in a graphical user interface that appears in order to request information from the user; after the information has been provided the user dismisses the box with ‘okay’ or ‘cancel’
- a committee appointed to judge a competition
- a group of people gathered for a special purpose as to plan or discuss an issue or judge a contest etc
- a piece of cloth that is generally triangular or tapering; used in making garments or umbrellas or sails
- a soft pad placed under a saddle
- electrical device consisting of a flat insulated surface that contains switches and dials and meters for controlling other electrical devices
- (law) a group of people summoned for jury service (from whom a jury will be chosen)
verb
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- (mining) One who jigs; a miner who sorts or cleans ore by the process of jigging.
- (nautical) A jiggermast.
- (slang, UK) Ellipsis of jigger gun (“lock pick”).
- (nautical) A light tackle, consisting of a double and single block and the fall, used for various purposes, as to increase the purchase on a topsail sheet in hauling it home; the watch tackle.
- (US) A placeholder name for any small mechanical device.
- (pottery) A horizontal lathe used in producing flatware.
- (rail transport, New Zealand) A railway jigger, a small motorized or human powered vehicle used by railway workers to traverse railway tracks.
- (US) A measure of 1½ fluid ounces (approx. 44 ml) of liquor.
- (New Zealand) A short board or plank inserted into a tree for a person to stand on while cutting off higher branches.
- A sandflea, Tunga penetrans, of the order Siphonaptera; chigoe.
- (US) A double-ended vessel, generally of stainless steel or other metal, one end of which typically measures 1½ fluid ounces (approx. 44 ml), the other typically 1 fluid ounce (approx. 30 ml).
- A pendulum rolling machine for slicking or graining leather.
- (Australia, surveying, slang) A total station or its predecessor, a theodolite.
- The bridge or rest for the cue in billiards.
- (fishing) A device used by fishermen to set their nets under the ice of frozen lakes.
- (nautical, New England) A small fishing vessel, rigged like a yawl.
- A larva of any of several mites in the family Trombiculidae; chigger, harvest mite.
- (slang, euphemistic) A vagina.
- (mining) The sieve used in sorting or separating ore.
- (horse racing) An illicit electric shock device used to urge on a horse during a race.
- (textiles) A device used in the dyeing of cloth.
- (US, slang) A drink of whiskey.
- A warehouse crane.
- (slang) An illegal distillery.
- larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation
- a small glass adequate to hold a single swallow of whiskey
- any small mast on a sailing vessel; especially the mizzenmast of a yawl
verb
noun
- A person who works in a mine.
- Any bird of one of four species of Australian endemic honeyeaters in the genus Manorina.
- An operator of ordnance mines and similar explosives.
- Any bird of one of several species of South American ovenbirds in the genus Geositta.
- Any bird of one of several species of Australian honeyeaters in the genus Manorina.
- (cryptocurrencies) A person who mines cryptocurrency.
- (cryptocurrencies) Software or hardware that mines, or creates new units of cryptocurrency.
- laborer who works in a mine
verb
noun
- (mining) A pile of coal or ore heaped up on the ground after it has been mined.
- (specifically, military, weaponry) A supply of nuclear weapons kept by a country; a nuclear stockpile.
- A supply (especially a large one) of something kept for future use, specifically in case the cost of the item increases or if there a shortage.
- a storage pile accumulated for future use
- something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose
noun
- (mining) A miner's hammer.
- A sex worker's minder.
- (dialectal) A companion; mate (male or female).
- A person who is intentionally physically or emotionally cruel to others, especially to those whom they perceive as being vulnerable or of less power or privilege.
- A noisy, blustering, tyrannical person, more insolent than courageous; one who is threatening and quarrelsome.
- Any of various small freshwater or brackishwater fish of the family Eleotridae; sleeper gobies.
- (field hockey) A standoff between two players from the opposing teams, who repeatedly hit each other's hockey sticks and then attempt to acquire the ball, as a method of resuming the game in certain circumstances.
- The small scrum in the Eton College field game.
- (uncountable) Bully beef.
- A hired thug.
- a cruel and brutal fellow
- a hired thug
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adj
noun
- (mining) A pile of ore or rock.
- That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.
- (historical, Australia, Canada) A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin (called a holey dollar).
- A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
- (usually in the plural) A sad, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; despondency.
- (computing) A formatted listing of the contents of program storage, especially when produced automatically by a failing program.
- (slang, often with the verb "take", euphemistic) An act of defecation; a defecating.
- A storage place for supplies, especially military.
- (slang) An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, unfashionable, boring, or depressing looking place.
- A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site.
- (marketing) A temporary display case that holds many copies of an item being sold.
- (computing) An act of dumping, or its result.
- (Northern England) A deep hole in a river bed; a pool.
- Absence of mind; reverie.
- (Internet slang) A disorganized collection of images posted on social media.
- a coarse term for defecation
- (computer science) a copy of the contents of a computer storage device; sometimes used in debugging programs
- a piece of land where waste materials are dumped
- a place where supplies can be stored
verb
- (transitive, computing) To copy (data) from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.
- (transitive) To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.
- (transitive, computing) To output the contents of storage or a data structure, often in order to diagnose a bug.
- (transitive) To discard; to get rid of something one no longer wants.
- (transitive, Australia) Of a surf wave, to crash a swimmer, surfer, etc., heavily downwards.
- (transitive) To sell below cost or very cheaply; to engage in dumping.
- (transitive) To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it
- (transitive, US) To precipitate (especially snow) heavily.
- (transitive, informal) To end a romantic relationship with.
- throw away as refuse
- sell at artificially low prices
- drop (stuff) in a heap or mass
- knock down with force
- fall abruptly
- sever all ties with, usually unceremoniously or irresponsibly
noun
- someone who works in a coal mine
- (slang, used by the traveller community) A non-traveller.
- A person who produces (e.g., digs, mines, gathers) or sells coal (the fossil fuel type), or transports it from underground, from the soil, or from a seashore.
- (nautical) A sailor on such a vessel.
- (nautical) A vessel carrying a bulk cargo of coal.
noun
- (mining) A rock breaker.
- (metalworking) A form of squeezer for the puddle ball.
- (paleontology) A member of the family Alligatoridae, which includes the caimans.
- (usually in the plural) An alligator-skin shoe.
- Either of two species of large amphibious reptile, Alligator mississippiensis or Alligator sinensis, in the genus Alligator within order Crocodilia, which have sharp teeth and very strong jaws and are native to the Americas and China, respectively.
- Any of various vehicles that have relatively long, low noses in front of a cab or other, usually windowed, structure.
- (printing) A kind of job press.
- (Nigeria) A dwarf crocodile (Osteolaemus tetraspis)
- leather made from alligator's hide
- either of two amphibious reptiles related to crocodiles but with shorter broader snouts
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- (mining) An apparatus or machine for jigging ore.
- (music) A light, brisk musical movement; a gigue.
- (fishing) A type of lure consisting of a hook molded into a weight, usually with a bright or colorful body.
- A device in manufacturing, woodworking, or other creative endeavors for controlling the location, path of movement, or both of either a workpiece or the tool that is operating upon it. Subsets of this general class include machining jigs, woodworking jigs, welders' jigs, jewelers' jigs, and many others.
- (traditional Irish music and dance) A lively dance in 6/8 (double jig), 9/8 (slip jig) or 12/8 (single jig) time; a tune suitable for such a dance. By extension, a lively traditional tune in any of these time signatures. Unqualified, the term is usually taken to refer to a double (6/8) jig.
- (traditional English Morris dance) A dance performed by one or sometimes two individual dancers, as opposed to a dance performed by a set or team.
- a device that holds a piece of machine work and guides the tools operating on it
- a fisherman's lure with one or more hooks that is jerked up and down in the water
- any of various old rustic dances involving kicking and leaping
- music in three-four time for dancing a jig
verb
- (mining) To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve.
- To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude.
- (fishing) To fish with a jig.
- To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine.
- To sing to the tune of a jig.
- To skip school or be truant.
- To move briskly, especially as a dance.
- To move with a skip or rhythm; to move with vibrations or jerks.
- dance a quick dance with leaping and kicking motions
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- Prunus sect. Armeniaca (better known as apricots)
- A desirable or choice thing of its kind; a prize selection; a choice appointment, assignment etc.
- An edible, fleshy stone fruit of Prunus domestica (European plum), often of a dark red or purple colour.
- Prunus mume, an Asian fruit more closely related to the apricot than the plum, usually consumed pickled, dried, or as a juice or wine; ume.
- A stone-fruit tree which bears this fruit, Prunus domestica.
- Prunus angustifolia (Chickasaw plum or sand plum)
- A dark bluish-red color/colour, the colour of some plums.
- Prunus salicina (Chinese plum or Japanese plum)
- Prunus americana (American plum)
- Prunus subcordata (Klamath plum or Oregon plum)
- (vulgar, slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
- Prunus nigra (Canadian plum or black plum)
- Prunus spinosa (sloe)
- Prunus rivularis (creek plum or hog plum)
- Prunus cerasifera (cherry plum or myrobalan)
- (derogatory, chiefly UK) A fool, an idiot.
- Prunus ursina (bear's plum)
- Prunus hortulana (hortulan plum)
- any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit
- any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone
- a highly desirable position or assignment
noun
- (mining) One who pushes the small wagons in a coal mine, to transport the coal mined by the getter.
- One who puts or places.
- (golf) A golf club specifically intended for a putt.
- A shot-putter.
- (golf) A person who is taking a putt or putting.
- the iron normally used on the putting green
- a golfer who is putting
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- (mining) One who bucks ore.
- (mining) A broad-headed hammer used in bucking ore.
- A horse or other animal that bucks.
- (metalworking) A holder-up; one who bucks rivets, typically holding a heavy bucking bar against the bucktail of a rivet which is heated if necessary till it is soft, while the riveter (or gunner or, before mechanisation, basher) uses a rivet gun (an adjustable pneumatic hammer) fitted with a rivet set, against the factory head to provide impulses which upset the bucktail into a field head.
noun
- (mining) One who searches for stream tin.
- A stream or column of light shooting upward from the horizon, constituting one of the forms of the aurora borealis.
- (computing) A data storage system, mainly used to produce backups, in which large quantities of data are transferred to a continuously moving tape; a tape drive.
- Strips of paper or other material used as confetti.
- (journalism) A newspaper headline that runs along the top of a page.
- (Internet) A person who streams activities on their computer (especially video gaming) to a live online audience.
- (television, Internet) A subscription service that streams content to an audience.
- (fishing) In fly fishing, a variety of wet fly designed to mimic a minnow.
- A long, narrow flag, or piece of material used or seen as a decoration.
- (networking) Any mechanism for streaming data.
- (UK, education, in combination) A pupil belonging to a particular stream (division by perceived ability).
- light that streams
- a newspaper headline that runs across the full page
- a long flag; often tapering
- long strip of cloth or paper used for decoration or advertising
noun
- (metalworking, construction) A person whose job is to rivet.
- (specifically, for solid rivets) A gunner; the member of a riveting team who uses a rivet gun, fitted with a rivet set which matches the shape of the factory head of a solid rivet, to impact that rivet (which is heated if necessary to soften it), while the bucker (or holder-up) holds a heavy bucking bar against the bucktail of the rivet, upsetting it to form the field head. If the rivets have to be heated, the team will also include a cook and a catcher; see rivet for more details.
- A tool used to fix rivets.
- a machine for driving rivets
- a worker who inserts and hammers rivets
noun
- (mining, historical) A person employed to work the steam engine or other machinery that raises the coal from the mine.
- (US, rail transport) A railroad employee responsible for a train's brakes, couplings etc.
- (sports) A person who pulls the brake lever in the sport of bobsleigh.
- a male railroad employee responsible for a train's brakes
noun
- A miner's underground working time or shift.
- (physics) An atomic nucleus plus inner electrons (i.e., an atom, except for its valence electrons).
- (engineering, manufacturing) The portion of a mold that creates a cavity or impression within the part (casting or molded part) or that makes a hole in or through the part.
- (biochemistry) The central part of a protein's structure, consisting mostly of hydrophobic amino acids.
- (computing, informal, historical) Ellipsis of core memory (“magnetic data storage”).
- (engineering) The material between surface materials in a structured composite sandwich material.
- (art) A thematic aesthetic; objects related to a specific topic
- (neologism) An aesthetic ending in the suffix -core, such as cottagecore, normcore, etc.
- (military) The central fissile portion of a fission weapon.
- (historical units of measure) Alternative form of cor: a former Hebrew and Phoenician unit of volume.
- A piece of ferromagnetic material (e.g., soft iron), inside the windings of an electromagnet, that channels the magnetic field.
- The anatomical core, muscles which bridge abdomen and thorax.
- (botany) The main and most diverse monophyletic group within a clade or taxonomic group.
- A disorder of sheep caused by worms in the liver.
- (automotive, machinery, aviation, marine) A deposit paid by the purchaser of a rebuilt part, to be refunded on return of a used, rebuildable part, or the returned rebuildable part itself.
- (medicine) A tiny sample of organic material obtained by means of a fine-needle biopsy.
- (computer hardware) An individual computer processor, in the sense when several processors (called cores or CPU cores) are plugged together in one single integrated circuit to work as one (called a multi-core processor).
- The heart or inner part of a physical thing.
- The center or inner part of a space or area.
- A cylindrical sample of rock or other materials obtained by core drilling.
- The central part of a fruit, containing the kernels or seeds.
- (engineering, nuclear physics) The inner part of a nuclear reactor, in which the nuclear reaction takes place.
- (game theory) The set of feasible allocations that cannot be improved upon by a subset (a coalition) of the economy's agents.
- (printing) A hollow cylindrical piece of cardboard around which a web of paper or plastic is wound.
- The most important part of a thing or aggregate of things wherever located and whether of any determinate location at all; the essence.
- The bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals.
- (computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories
- the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place
- the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
- a small group of indispensable persons or things
- a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil
- the center of an object
- the central part of the Earth
- a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill
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- To dig into, for ore or metal.
- (ambitransitive) To remove (rock or ore) from the ground.
- (by extension, figurative) To ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
- To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine.
- (transitive) To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area).
- (intransitive) To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth.
- (slang) To pick one's nose.
- (cryptocurrencies) To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.
- (by extension, figurative) To tap into.
- (transitive) To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device).
- get from the earth by excavation
- lay mines
noun
- An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels.
- (military) A device intended to explode when stepped upon or touched, or when approached by a ship, vehicle, or person.
- (entomology) The cavity made by a caterpillar while feeding inside a leaf.
- (figurative) Any source of wealth or resources.
- (computing) A machine or network of machines used to extract units of a cryptocurrency.
- (pyrotechnics) A type of firework that explodes on the ground, shooting sparks upward.
- (military) A passage dug toward or underneath enemy lines, which is then packed with explosives.
- Alternative form of mien.
- excavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extracted
- explosive device that explodes on contact; designed to destroy vehicles or ships or to kill or maim personnel
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- (mining) A shaft or excavation.
- (motor racing) The optimal route around the track, or any of several such routes.
- The middle of the strike zone in baseball where a pitch is most easily hit.
- A fixed routine.
- (music) A pronounced, enjoyable rhythm.
- A long, narrow channel or depression; e.g., such a slot cut into a hard material to provide a location for an engineering component, a tire groove, or a geological channel or depression.
- a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record)
- a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape
- (anatomy) any furrow or channel on a bodily structure or part
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- To wash; to wash, and to smooth with a flatiron or mangle; to wash and iron.
- (money) To disguise the source of (ill-gotten wealth) by various means.
- (programming, transitive) To obtain a pointer to an object created in storage occupied by an existing object of the same type, even if it has const or reference members.
- cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water
- convert illegally obtained funds into legal ones
noun
- (mining) One who works at a tipple.
- Alternative form of tipple, a revolving frame or cage in which a truck or wagon is inverted to discharge its load.
- A habitual drinker; a bibber.
- A breed of domestic pigeon bred to participate in endurance competitions.
- (UK, railroad) An open wagon with a tipping trough, unloaded by being inverted (used for bulk cargo, especially minerals). A minecart, a lorry.
- someone who drinks liquor repeatedly in small quantities
noun
- (mining) A person who waits at the mouth of the shaft to receive the kibble of ore.
- A spacecraft, particularly a probe, designed to set down on the surface of another celestial body.
- (in combination) A person from a specific land. See highlander, Greenlander.
- One who lands, or who lands something.
- (Internet) Synonym of landing page.
- (slang) An illegal immigrant.
- a space vehicle that is designed to land on the moon or another planet
noun
- (mining, historical) A person employed in driving in rock other than coal.
- (fishing) One who takes part in drift fishing.
- (parachuting) A parachutist who jumps before the rest of the group to determine wind direction.
- (sometimes derogatory) A person who moves from place to place or job to job.
- (fishing) A boat used for drift fishing.
- (nautical) A type of lightweight sail used in light winds like a spinnaker.
- (automotive) A driver who uses driving techniques to modify vehicle traction to cause a vehicle to slide or power slide rather than drive in line with the tires.
- a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support
noun
- (coal mining) One who is employed in conveying the coal through the gangways.
- (nautical) A length of chain, one end of which is fastened to an anchor when let go, when the other end is fastened to a hawser.
- A horse that goes quickly.
- (business, rail transport) One who oversees a gang of workmen.
- (chiefly Scotland) One who or that which walks or goes; a goer; a walker.
- the foreman of a work gang
noun
- (mining) A person employed to tear away ore, rock, etc. to make a passage for material to be carried to the surface.
- (mining) A hook-like tool used to tear away ore, rock, etc.
- (US, New Jersey, slang) A hot dog deep-fried in oil until the casing bursts.
- (computing) Software that extracts content from files or storage media.
- A murderer who kills and often mutilates victims with a blade or similar sharp weapon.
- A foghorn.
- A legislative bill or act that transfers powers of appointment from the usual holders to a chief executive or a board of officials.
- Someone who rips something.
- Something that rips something else.
- (British, Australia, slang) Something that is an excellent example of its kind.
- (agriculture) A tool or plant used to reduce soil compaction.
- a murderer who slashes the victims with a knife
adj
noun
- (mining, historical) A person employed to install and remove props, brattices, etc. and to clear gas, for the safety of the miners.
- (historical) A member of the French Chamber of Deputies, formerly called Corps Législatif.
- (Ireland, often capitalized) A member of Dáil Éireann, or the title of a member of Dáil Éireann.
- (US, law enforcement) a law enforcement officer who works for the county sheriff's office; a deputy sheriff or sheriff's deputy; the entry level rank in such an agency.
- A member of the French National Assembly.
- One appointed as the substitute of others, and empowered to act for them, in their name or their behalf; a substitute in office.
- (government) The name for a member of legislature in some countries.
- someone authorized to exercise the powers of sheriff in emergencies
- a member of the lower chamber of a legislative assembly (such as in France)
- a person appointed to represent or act on behalf of others
- an assistant with power to act when their superior is absent
verb
noun
- (mining, historical) A person who gets the mineral down by blasting in the working face after it has been "holed".
- (mining, historical) A person employed to cut or blast the roof or floor of a roadway and so give more height.
- (Internet) An online seller who uses the fraudulent technique of brushing.
- Someone who brushes (any of the meanings).
noun
- (mining) An area for working in a coal mine.
- (in the plural) A set of rooms inhabited by someone; one's lodgings.
- (nautical) A space between the timbers of a ship's frame.
- A place or position in society; office; rank; post, sometimes when vacated by its former occupant.
- A quantity of furniture sufficient to furnish one room.
- (Internet, countable) An IRC or chat room.
- (usually in the singular, metonymic) The people in a room.
- (countable) A separate part of a building, enclosed by walls, a floor and a ceiling.
- (countable, with possessive pronoun) (One's) bedroom.
- Alternative form of roum (“deep blue dye”).
- (uncountable, figuratively) Sufficient space for or to do something.
- (caving) A portion of a cave that is wider than a passage.
- (uncountable) Space for something, or to carry out an activity.
- the people who are present in a room
- an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling
- space for movement
- opportunity for
adv
verb
noun
- (mining) In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.
- Previously unknown facts or rumors about a person.
- (chiefly US) Soil or earth.
- (figurative) Meanness; sordidness.
- A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance.
- Freckles.
- obscene terms for feces
- the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock
- anything regarded as making something unclean
- disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people
verb
adj
noun
- (mining) Any thick mass of rock that prevents miners from following the lode or vein.
- (architecture, interior decorating, carpentry) Either of the vertical components that form the side of an opening in a wall, such as that of a door frame, window frame, or fireplace.
- Synonym of jambeau (“piece of armor for the leg”).
- upright consisting of a vertical side member of a door or window frame
verb
noun
- (mining) A heap of dressed ore.
- (masonry) One of the faces of a hewn stone.
- (law) The whole jury.
- A soft pad beneath a saddletree to prevent chafing.
- (medicine) A group of tests or assays, a battery.
- A portion of text or other material within a book, newspaper, web page, etc. set apart from the main body or separated by a border.
- A portion of a framed structure between adjacent posts or struts, as in a bridge truss.
- (law) A document containing the names of persons summoned as jurors by the sheriff.
- A (usually) rectangular section of a surface, or of a covering or of a wall, fence etc.
- (dressmaking) A plain strip or band, as of velvet or plush, placed at intervals lengthwise on the skirt of a dress, for ornament.
- (architecture) A sunken compartment with raised margins, moulded or otherwise, as in ceilings, wainscotings, etc.
- (graphical user interface) A type of GUI widget, such as a control panel.
- (Scots law) A prisoner arraigned for trial at the bar of a criminal court.
- (masonry) A slab or plank of wood used instead of a canvas for painting on.
- (joinery) A board having its edges inserted in the groove of a surrounding frame.
- (mining) One of the districts divided by pillars of extra size, into which a mine is laid off in one system of extracting coal.
- (British, historical) A list of doctors who could provide limited free healthcare prior to the introduction of the NHS.
- A group of people gathered to judge, interview, discuss etc. as on a television or radio broadcast for example.
- (comics) An individual frame or drawing in a comic.
- sheet that forms a distinct (usually flat and rectangular) section or component of something
- (computer science) a small temporary window in a graphical user interface that appears in order to request information from the user; after the information has been provided the user dismisses the box with ‘okay’ or ‘cancel’
- a committee appointed to judge a competition
- a group of people gathered for a special purpose as to plan or discuss an issue or judge a contest etc
- a piece of cloth that is generally triangular or tapering; used in making garments or umbrellas or sails
- a soft pad placed under a saddle
- electrical device consisting of a flat insulated surface that contains switches and dials and meters for controlling other electrical devices
- (law) a group of people summoned for jury service (from whom a jury will be chosen)
verb
noun
- (mining) One who jigs; a miner who sorts or cleans ore by the process of jigging.
- (nautical) A jiggermast.
- (slang, UK) Ellipsis of jigger gun (“lock pick”).
- (nautical) A light tackle, consisting of a double and single block and the fall, used for various purposes, as to increase the purchase on a topsail sheet in hauling it home; the watch tackle.
- (US) A placeholder name for any small mechanical device.
- (pottery) A horizontal lathe used in producing flatware.
- (rail transport, New Zealand) A railway jigger, a small motorized or human powered vehicle used by railway workers to traverse railway tracks.
- (US) A measure of 1½ fluid ounces (approx. 44 ml) of liquor.
- (New Zealand) A short board or plank inserted into a tree for a person to stand on while cutting off higher branches.
- A sandflea, Tunga penetrans, of the order Siphonaptera; chigoe.
- (US) A double-ended vessel, generally of stainless steel or other metal, one end of which typically measures 1½ fluid ounces (approx. 44 ml), the other typically 1 fluid ounce (approx. 30 ml).
- A pendulum rolling machine for slicking or graining leather.
- (Australia, surveying, slang) A total station or its predecessor, a theodolite.
- The bridge or rest for the cue in billiards.
- (fishing) A device used by fishermen to set their nets under the ice of frozen lakes.
- (nautical, New England) A small fishing vessel, rigged like a yawl.
- A larva of any of several mites in the family Trombiculidae; chigger, harvest mite.
- (slang, euphemistic) A vagina.
- (mining) The sieve used in sorting or separating ore.
- (horse racing) An illicit electric shock device used to urge on a horse during a race.
- (textiles) A device used in the dyeing of cloth.
- (US, slang) A drink of whiskey.
- A warehouse crane.
- (slang) An illegal distillery.
- larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation
- a small glass adequate to hold a single swallow of whiskey
- any small mast on a sailing vessel; especially the mizzenmast of a yawl
verb
noun
- A person who works in a mine.
- Any bird of one of four species of Australian endemic honeyeaters in the genus Manorina.
- An operator of ordnance mines and similar explosives.
- Any bird of one of several species of South American ovenbirds in the genus Geositta.
- Any bird of one of several species of Australian honeyeaters in the genus Manorina.
- (cryptocurrencies) A person who mines cryptocurrency.
- (cryptocurrencies) Software or hardware that mines, or creates new units of cryptocurrency.
- laborer who works in a mine
noun
- (mining) A miner's hammer.
- A sex worker's minder.
- (dialectal) A companion; mate (male or female).
- A person who is intentionally physically or emotionally cruel to others, especially to those whom they perceive as being vulnerable or of less power or privilege.
- A noisy, blustering, tyrannical person, more insolent than courageous; one who is threatening and quarrelsome.
- Any of various small freshwater or brackishwater fish of the family Eleotridae; sleeper gobies.
- (field hockey) A standoff between two players from the opposing teams, who repeatedly hit each other's hockey sticks and then attempt to acquire the ball, as a method of resuming the game in certain circumstances.
- The small scrum in the Eton College field game.
- (uncountable) Bully beef.
- A hired thug.
- a cruel and brutal fellow
- a hired thug
intj
verb
adj
noun
- (mining) A pile of ore or rock.
- That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.
- (historical, Australia, Canada) A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin (called a holey dollar).
- A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
- (usually in the plural) A sad, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; despondency.
- (computing) A formatted listing of the contents of program storage, especially when produced automatically by a failing program.
- (slang, often with the verb "take", euphemistic) An act of defecation; a defecating.
- A storage place for supplies, especially military.
- (slang) An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, unfashionable, boring, or depressing looking place.
- A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site.
- (marketing) A temporary display case that holds many copies of an item being sold.
- (computing) An act of dumping, or its result.
- (Northern England) A deep hole in a river bed; a pool.
- Absence of mind; reverie.
- (Internet slang) A disorganized collection of images posted on social media.
- a coarse term for defecation
- (computer science) a copy of the contents of a computer storage device; sometimes used in debugging programs
- a piece of land where waste materials are dumped
- a place where supplies can be stored
verb
- (transitive, computing) To copy (data) from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.
- (transitive) To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.
- (transitive, computing) To output the contents of storage or a data structure, often in order to diagnose a bug.
- (transitive) To discard; to get rid of something one no longer wants.
- (transitive, Australia) Of a surf wave, to crash a swimmer, surfer, etc., heavily downwards.
- (transitive) To sell below cost or very cheaply; to engage in dumping.
- (transitive) To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it
- (transitive, US) To precipitate (especially snow) heavily.
- (transitive, informal) To end a romantic relationship with.
- throw away as refuse
- sell at artificially low prices
- drop (stuff) in a heap or mass
- knock down with force
- fall abruptly
- sever all ties with, usually unceremoniously or irresponsibly
noun
- someone who works in a coal mine
- (slang, used by the traveller community) A non-traveller.
- A person who produces (e.g., digs, mines, gathers) or sells coal (the fossil fuel type), or transports it from underground, from the soil, or from a seashore.
- (nautical) A sailor on such a vessel.
- (nautical) A vessel carrying a bulk cargo of coal.
noun
- (mining) A rock breaker.
- (metalworking) A form of squeezer for the puddle ball.
- (paleontology) A member of the family Alligatoridae, which includes the caimans.
- (usually in the plural) An alligator-skin shoe.
- Either of two species of large amphibious reptile, Alligator mississippiensis or Alligator sinensis, in the genus Alligator within order Crocodilia, which have sharp teeth and very strong jaws and are native to the Americas and China, respectively.
- Any of various vehicles that have relatively long, low noses in front of a cab or other, usually windowed, structure.
- (printing) A kind of job press.
- (Nigeria) A dwarf crocodile (Osteolaemus tetraspis)
- leather made from alligator's hide
- either of two amphibious reptiles related to crocodiles but with shorter broader snouts
intj
verb
noun
verb
noun
- (mining) An apparatus or machine for jigging ore.
- (music) A light, brisk musical movement; a gigue.
- (fishing) A type of lure consisting of a hook molded into a weight, usually with a bright or colorful body.
- A device in manufacturing, woodworking, or other creative endeavors for controlling the location, path of movement, or both of either a workpiece or the tool that is operating upon it. Subsets of this general class include machining jigs, woodworking jigs, welders' jigs, jewelers' jigs, and many others.
- (traditional Irish music and dance) A lively dance in 6/8 (double jig), 9/8 (slip jig) or 12/8 (single jig) time; a tune suitable for such a dance. By extension, a lively traditional tune in any of these time signatures. Unqualified, the term is usually taken to refer to a double (6/8) jig.
- (traditional English Morris dance) A dance performed by one or sometimes two individual dancers, as opposed to a dance performed by a set or team.
- a device that holds a piece of machine work and guides the tools operating on it
- a fisherman's lure with one or more hooks that is jerked up and down in the water
- any of various old rustic dances involving kicking and leaping
- music in three-four time for dancing a jig
verb
- (mining) To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve.
- To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude.
- (fishing) To fish with a jig.
- To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine.
- To sing to the tune of a jig.
- To skip school or be truant.
- To move briskly, especially as a dance.
- To move with a skip or rhythm; to move with vibrations or jerks.
- dance a quick dance with leaping and kicking motions
noun
- (mining) One who pushes the small wagons in a coal mine, to transport the coal mined by the getter.
- One who puts or places.
- (golf) A golf club specifically intended for a putt.
- A shot-putter.
- (golf) A person who is taking a putt or putting.
- the iron normally used on the putting green
- a golfer who is putting
verb
noun
- (mining) One who bucks ore.
- (mining) A broad-headed hammer used in bucking ore.
- A horse or other animal that bucks.
- (metalworking) A holder-up; one who bucks rivets, typically holding a heavy bucking bar against the bucktail of a rivet which is heated if necessary till it is soft, while the riveter (or gunner or, before mechanisation, basher) uses a rivet gun (an adjustable pneumatic hammer) fitted with a rivet set, against the factory head to provide impulses which upset the bucktail into a field head.
noun
- (mining) One who searches for stream tin.
- A stream or column of light shooting upward from the horizon, constituting one of the forms of the aurora borealis.
- (computing) A data storage system, mainly used to produce backups, in which large quantities of data are transferred to a continuously moving tape; a tape drive.
- Strips of paper or other material used as confetti.
- (journalism) A newspaper headline that runs along the top of a page.
- (Internet) A person who streams activities on their computer (especially video gaming) to a live online audience.
- (television, Internet) A subscription service that streams content to an audience.
- (fishing) In fly fishing, a variety of wet fly designed to mimic a minnow.
- A long, narrow flag, or piece of material used or seen as a decoration.
- (networking) Any mechanism for streaming data.
- (UK, education, in combination) A pupil belonging to a particular stream (division by perceived ability).
- light that streams
- a newspaper headline that runs across the full page
- a long flag; often tapering
- long strip of cloth or paper used for decoration or advertising
noun
- (metalworking, construction) A person whose job is to rivet.
- (specifically, for solid rivets) A gunner; the member of a riveting team who uses a rivet gun, fitted with a rivet set which matches the shape of the factory head of a solid rivet, to impact that rivet (which is heated if necessary to soften it), while the bucker (or holder-up) holds a heavy bucking bar against the bucktail of the rivet, upsetting it to form the field head. If the rivets have to be heated, the team will also include a cook and a catcher; see rivet for more details.
- A tool used to fix rivets.
- a machine for driving rivets
- a worker who inserts and hammers rivets
noun
- (mining, historical) A person employed to work the steam engine or other machinery that raises the coal from the mine.
- (US, rail transport) A railroad employee responsible for a train's brakes, couplings etc.
- (sports) A person who pulls the brake lever in the sport of bobsleigh.
- a male railroad employee responsible for a train's brakes
verb
noun
- (mining) A pile of coal or ore heaped up on the ground after it has been mined.
- (specifically, military, weaponry) A supply of nuclear weapons kept by a country; a nuclear stockpile.
- A supply (especially a large one) of something kept for future use, specifically in case the cost of the item increases or if there a shortage.
- a storage pile accumulated for future use
- something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose
noun
- A miner's underground working time or shift.
- (physics) An atomic nucleus plus inner electrons (i.e., an atom, except for its valence electrons).
- (engineering, manufacturing) The portion of a mold that creates a cavity or impression within the part (casting or molded part) or that makes a hole in or through the part.
- (biochemistry) The central part of a protein's structure, consisting mostly of hydrophobic amino acids.
- (computing, informal, historical) Ellipsis of core memory (“magnetic data storage”).
- (engineering) The material between surface materials in a structured composite sandwich material.
- (art) A thematic aesthetic; objects related to a specific topic
- (neologism) An aesthetic ending in the suffix -core, such as cottagecore, normcore, etc.
- (military) The central fissile portion of a fission weapon.
- (historical units of measure) Alternative form of cor: a former Hebrew and Phoenician unit of volume.
- A piece of ferromagnetic material (e.g., soft iron), inside the windings of an electromagnet, that channels the magnetic field.
- The anatomical core, muscles which bridge abdomen and thorax.
- (botany) The main and most diverse monophyletic group within a clade or taxonomic group.
- A disorder of sheep caused by worms in the liver.
- (automotive, machinery, aviation, marine) A deposit paid by the purchaser of a rebuilt part, to be refunded on return of a used, rebuildable part, or the returned rebuildable part itself.
- (medicine) A tiny sample of organic material obtained by means of a fine-needle biopsy.
- (computer hardware) An individual computer processor, in the sense when several processors (called cores or CPU cores) are plugged together in one single integrated circuit to work as one (called a multi-core processor).
- The heart or inner part of a physical thing.
- The center or inner part of a space or area.
- A cylindrical sample of rock or other materials obtained by core drilling.
- The central part of a fruit, containing the kernels or seeds.
- (engineering, nuclear physics) The inner part of a nuclear reactor, in which the nuclear reaction takes place.
- (game theory) The set of feasible allocations that cannot be improved upon by a subset (a coalition) of the economy's agents.
- (printing) A hollow cylindrical piece of cardboard around which a web of paper or plastic is wound.
- The most important part of a thing or aggregate of things wherever located and whether of any determinate location at all; the essence.
- The bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals.
- (computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories
- the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place
- the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
- a small group of indispensable persons or things
- a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil
- the center of an object
- the central part of the Earth
- a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill
adj
verb
noun
- (mining) A shaft or excavation.
- (motor racing) The optimal route around the track, or any of several such routes.
- The middle of the strike zone in baseball where a pitch is most easily hit.
- A fixed routine.
- (music) A pronounced, enjoyable rhythm.
- A long, narrow channel or depression; e.g., such a slot cut into a hard material to provide a location for an engineering component, a tire groove, or a geological channel or depression.
- a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record)
- a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape
- (anatomy) any furrow or channel on a bodily structure or part
verb
noun
verb
- To wash; to wash, and to smooth with a flatiron or mangle; to wash and iron.
- (money) To disguise the source of (ill-gotten wealth) by various means.
- (programming, transitive) To obtain a pointer to an object created in storage occupied by an existing object of the same type, even if it has const or reference members.
- cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water
- convert illegally obtained funds into legal ones
verb
- (intransitive) To work a mine near the surface.
- (intransitive) To rise to the surface.
- (transitive) To make (information, facts, content, etc) known.
- (transitive) To bring to the surface.
- (transitive) To provide with a surface; to apply a surface to.
- (intransitive, figurative) To come out of hiding.
- (intransitive, of information, facts, content, etc) To become known or apparent; to appear or be found; to come to light.
- come to the surface
- appear or become visible; make a showing
- put a coat on; cover the surface of; furnish with a surface
noun
- (figurative) Outward or external appearance.
- The overside or upside of a flat object such as a table, or of a liquid.
- The outside hull of a tangible object.
- (crosswording) The story or image suggested by a cryptic clue, when read as a whole sentence without considering wordplay.
- (computer graphics) A portion of the display to which graphics can be rendered.
- (mathematics, geometry) The locus of an equation (especially one with exactly two degrees of freedom) in a space of more than two dimensions.
- a superficial aspect as opposed to the real nature of something
- a device that provides reactive force when in motion relative to the surrounding air; can lift or control a plane in flight
- the outermost level of the land or sea
- information that has become public
- the outer boundary of an artifact or a material layer constituting or resembling such a boundary
- the extended two-dimensional outer boundary of a three-dimensional object
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noun
- (mining, slang) A mine worked by fewer than fifteen miners, which is small enough that some safety laws do not apply.
- (idiomatic, derogatory) A place regarded as fit only for dogs: a horrid, mean habitation.
- A hole that was dug by a dog.
- A type of small schooner designed in the 19th century to navigate in shallow waters and to conduct coastal shipping in and out of doghole ports.
- A small, shallow bay or inlet, usually surrounded by high cliffs, that is accessible only by smaller boats.
- An underground bolthole dug to hide from enemy soldiers.
- Such a small mine that is dug independently by one or a few miners, often clandestinely and illegally: a bootleg mine.
- A hole drilled for the placement of a bench dog.
- (mining) An excavated area that acts as an access hole or that connects different parts of a mine.
- A tiny, uncomfortable hole or cell, usually too small to stand in, in which prisoners are confined as punishment.
- One of the entrances to a system of prairie dog tunnels.
verb
noun
- (mining) A pile of coal or ore heaped up on the ground after it has been mined.
- (specifically, military, weaponry) A supply of nuclear weapons kept by a country; a nuclear stockpile.
- A supply (especially a large one) of something kept for future use, specifically in case the cost of the item increases or if there a shortage.
- a storage pile accumulated for future use
- something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose
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adv
noun
- Prunus sect. Armeniaca (better known as apricots)
- A desirable or choice thing of its kind; a prize selection; a choice appointment, assignment etc.
- An edible, fleshy stone fruit of Prunus domestica (European plum), often of a dark red or purple colour.
- Prunus mume, an Asian fruit more closely related to the apricot than the plum, usually consumed pickled, dried, or as a juice or wine; ume.
- A stone-fruit tree which bears this fruit, Prunus domestica.
- Prunus angustifolia (Chickasaw plum or sand plum)
- A dark bluish-red color/colour, the colour of some plums.
- Prunus salicina (Chinese plum or Japanese plum)
- Prunus americana (American plum)
- Prunus subcordata (Klamath plum or Oregon plum)
- (vulgar, slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
- Prunus nigra (Canadian plum or black plum)
- Prunus spinosa (sloe)
- Prunus rivularis (creek plum or hog plum)
- Prunus cerasifera (cherry plum or myrobalan)
- (derogatory, chiefly UK) A fool, an idiot.
- Prunus ursina (bear's plum)
- Prunus hortulana (hortulan plum)
- any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit
- any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone
- a highly desirable position or assignment
verb
- To dig into, for ore or metal.
- (ambitransitive) To remove (rock or ore) from the ground.
- (by extension, figurative) To ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
- To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine.
- (transitive) To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area).
- (intransitive) To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth.
- (slang) To pick one's nose.
- (cryptocurrencies) To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.
- (by extension, figurative) To tap into.
- (transitive) To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device).
- get from the earth by excavation
- lay mines
noun
- An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels.
- (military) A device intended to explode when stepped upon or touched, or when approached by a ship, vehicle, or person.
- (entomology) The cavity made by a caterpillar while feeding inside a leaf.
- (figurative) Any source of wealth or resources.
- (computing) A machine or network of machines used to extract units of a cryptocurrency.
- (pyrotechnics) A type of firework that explodes on the ground, shooting sparks upward.
- (military) A passage dug toward or underneath enemy lines, which is then packed with explosives.
- Alternative form of mien.
- excavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extracted
- explosive device that explodes on contact; designed to destroy vehicles or ships or to kill or maim personnel
pron
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